Corsicana Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs in Navarro County for over twenty years, and I can tell you straight up—Corsicana sits right in the bullseye for some of the nastiest spring weather in Texas. You’ve got that classic setup where warm, moist air from the Gulf rolls up I-45 and collides with dry, cooler air dropping down from the Panhandle. That’s a recipe for supercell thunderstorms, and when those things fire up right around March through May, they don’t just give us a little rain. They drop hail the size of golf balls, sometimes bigger, and those straight-line winds can hit sixty or seventy miles an hour without even blinking. The geography doesn’t help either—we’re out on that flat, open prairie with nothing to break the wind, so a storm that might weaken over the Hill Country just barrels right through here with its full force.

What really gets me is how the hail and wind work together to tear up a roof. The wind gets under your shingles and lifts the edges, and then the hail comes in and smashes those lifted tabs, cracking the fiberglass mat underneath. Once that mat is cracked, the shingle is done—it’s not going to seal back down, and the next rainstorm is going to find its way under there. And because our storms tend to come in waves, you might get one round on a Tuesday and another on Thursday, so that first hit weakens everything, and the second one finishes the job. I’ve seen brand new roofs, only two years old, get shredded because the wind was blowing from the southwest, which is the worst direction for our homes—it hits the gable ends and the ridge vents straight on. If you’ve got a steep pitch or an older roof with worn-down granules, it’s even worse. Bottom line, we live in a place where the sky just unloads on us a few times a year, and your roof is the first thing standing in its way.